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Quote: Reports from his lecture yesterday suggest that Babai’s method involves dividing a graph into different parts and solving them separately. Some of these sub-graphs, known as Johnson graphs, are particularly difficult to analyse.
To tackle those, he borrows concepts from important work in another area of mathematics called group theory, known as the classification of finite simple groups. The proof of this is famous in its own right for running to tens of thousands of pages. “It sounds like Babai has built a monster of an algorithm,” says Williams.
So, basically, divide-and-conquer.
Decrease the belief in God, and you increase the numbers of those who wish to play at being God by being “society’s supervisors,” who deny the existence of divine standards, but are very serious about imposing their own standards on society.-Neal A. Maxwell
You must accept 1 of 2 basic premises: Either we are alone in the universe or we are not alone. Either way, the implications are staggering!-Wernher von Braun
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Why hasn't he asked any questins in QA? 
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Whar da codez???
Decrease the belief in God, and you increase the numbers of those who wish to play at being God by being “society’s supervisors,” who deny the existence of divine standards, but are very serious about imposing their own standards on society.-Neal A. Maxwell
You must accept 1 of 2 basic premises: Either we are alone in the universe or we are not alone. Either way, the implications are staggering!-Wernher von Braun
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While messaging has become central to our everyday lives, it’s currently only used in the narrow context of personal communications. What if we could extend messaging beyond this? Hey Cortana, what do you think of this idea?
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Microsoft is opening new data centers in Germany to allow European customers to hide their digital information from US government surveillance. "Ich bin ein Berliner"
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Thanks it's not "Ich bin ein Ballmer." 
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TTFN - Kent
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Let's see how long that lasts.
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Apple is in talks with banks in the US about creating its own mobile-to-mobile payments service that sounds a lot like PayPal's Venmo app, according to The Wall Street Journal's Robin Sidel. Will I need to install iTunes to send someone money?
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Called “Decoded,” the series will travel the world with Microsoft’s John Shewchuk to discover new tools and how they’re being used to develop the most exciting software solutions. Don't forget to set your PVR
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Almost half of work activities could be automated now, a new report says. And that includes those in the executive suite. Behold, the Bad Decision Maker 3000!
After all, I was replaced by a bot a long time ago
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In some companies I've worked, we could've replaced the CEO with a block of concrete and no one would've noticed the difference. 
"Computer games don't affect kids; I mean if Pac-Man affected us as kids, we'd all be running around in darkened rooms, munching magic pills and listening to repetitive electronic music."
-- Marcus Brigstocke, British Comedian
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Are you a Vario 500 ?
Patrice
“Everything should be made as simple as possible, but no simpler.” Albert Einstein
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Automation of executives? Simplest thing in the world: It's just an endless loop of nop instructions that increments an earnings counter on each iteration, and runs for eight to ten hours a day. Each 360 days, a bonus of a random value is calculated and added to the earnings counter (condition for the random value: it must be between two and ten times of the annual salary). The program for the (now virtual) top executives runs this thing multi-threaded (which explains the exobitant value of the earnings counter for thoses instances at the end of the day).
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Mozilla is releasing a “preview” build that runs within Android to give you a taste without any real commitment required.
The catch? They are shoehorning an OS on top of another OS, so the two might interact strangely sometimes — particularly at this early stage. For example, Mozilla says Android’s back button can cause some weird bugs at times. Wow Mozilla, thanks for making it easier to do something I don't want to do. 
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I hate Mozilla for not releasing FirefoxOS in the U.S.
i cri evry tiem
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Independent testing organization AV-Comparatives has released the results of its latest studies on a range of security products, focussing on how they impact system performance. Somewhere between some and lots (+/- 3%, 19 times out of 20)
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It depends on context. In the world of software development, he’s what passes for normal. The question is whether that situation should be allowed to continue. I'm guessing he doesn't care about the TPS reports
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Sure, Torvalds, or any other big shot CEO, doesn't put up with crap.
And they're in a position to yell and scold at people.
If you can't put up with it you shouldn't be there.
That's all good, but I still think any fool can yell and scold.
Being a technical genius is cool, but having people skills is probably equally cool.
Being a 10 at tech, but a 0 at people skills still makes you an average 5 (which is nothing short of an idiot).
Why not simply tell a coder who wrote bad code that he could've solved that problem better, or that you're sorry, but maybe programming isn't his thing?
Costs less energy, less time, the programmer isn't insulted (or utterly destroyed) and everything would be so much better for everyone...
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I've worked many people who have been 0's in both tech and people skills.
I've had many bosses who just barked orders because they could. Then they wondered why everyone didn't like them.
"Computer games don't affect kids; I mean if Pac-Man affected us as kids, we'd all be running around in darkened rooms, munching magic pills and listening to repetitive electronic music."
-- Marcus Brigstocke, British Comedian
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Erik Burd wrote: I've had many bosses who just barked orders because they could. Then they wondered why everyone didn't like them.
The funny thing is that when a manager has bad people skills they call him a bad manager.
When a techie has bad people skills they call him a brilliant techie...
Why do these techies want to write only the best code there is, but when it comes to managing they're fine with being the worst manager?
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That's a great point you bring up there.
"Computer games don't affect kids; I mean if Pac-Man affected us as kids, we'd all be running around in darkened rooms, munching magic pills and listening to repetitive electronic music."
-- Marcus Brigstocke, British Comedian
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Because they were roped into a position that they didn't want and can't get out of.
Decrease the belief in God, and you increase the numbers of those who wish to play at being God by being “society’s supervisors,” who deny the existence of divine standards, but are very serious about imposing their own standards on society.-Neal A. Maxwell
You must accept 1 of 2 basic premises: Either we are alone in the universe or we are not alone. Either way, the implications are staggering!-Wernher von Braun
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No, it is really not OK. Its called bullying and most of grow out of it as kids.
"If you don't fail at least 90 percent of the time, you're not aiming high enough."
Alan Kay.
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I'm just saying those people are what they are, idiots despite their technical brilliance.
And just like Torvalds I agree that's it's not OK for people to be idiots (Hah! See how I got him using his own game!?) 
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